In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

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"A game with a lot of strategy and planning. You start out as a garage programmer, and then build up to become a AAA game developer."

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In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

A journey through gaming history

Start in the 80s Start your adventure in a small garage office in the 80s. Enjoy the hand-crafted level design while you develop your first simple games. Gain experience, unlock new options and create your first game engine.

Create games your way In Game Dev Tycoon the decisions you make during development really matter. Decide which areas you want to focus on. Does your game need more gameplay or should you focus more on quests? These decisions will have a major impact on the success of your game.

Grow your company Once you have successfully released a few games you can move into your own office and forge a world-class development team. Hire staff, train them and unlock new options.

Make larger more complex games With experience and a good team, you can release larger, more complex games. Larger games bring new challenges and you will have to manage your team well to deliver hit games.

Features

Start a game development company in the 80s

Design and create games

Gain new insights through game reports

Research new technologies

Create custom game engines

Move into bigger offices

Forge a world-class development team

Unlock secret labs

Conduct industry changing products

Unlock achievements

Modding support

Workshop support

Community translations for German, Spanish, French, Portoguese (Brazil), Russian, Czech, Swedish, Dutch and Italian are available through the in-game menu.

The full game has many more features which are not listed here to prevent spoilers.

Game Dev Tycoon is a tycoon strategy game where you create your own game development company. You start as a guy/gal working out of a cramped garage in the 80's and as you create popular games you'll gradually grow until you have enough money for a new premises as well as the option to hire employees. As you continue to grow you'll be able to make bigger, better games, research new technology to gain an advantage, create your own MMOs and even create your own powerful game engines.

+Nice simple graphics+A lot of depth to it, especially as you unlock more things to do later in the game+A huge variety of topics to choose from when creating your game+A wide variety of consoles that come and go as time goes by+The market responds to games in a realistic way+Some good random events though there aren't enough of them+The game lets you grow your company at a natural rate and only allows you to expand when you have enough money+You can take publishing contracts or other freelance work to earn some extra money inbetween making games+You have a lot of control over your game as you can decide how much time is spent working on certain aspects/elements of the game, when working on larger games you can choose who works on what aspect+You can train yourself and your employees to be better at different skills which improves your games and improves how quickly they are made+The game keeps track of what topics and genres work well on what console and what elements of the game are most important+Very relaxing to play+Lots of replayability+Nice sound effects+Workshop support+Very low requirements to run it

-Once you've played it once nothing comes as a surprise such as when games consoles get taken of the market-The size your company can reach isn't overly big, it never gets any bigger than a medium indie team-Soundtrack is a bit repetitive at times

Verdict:9

A fantastic game development strategy game with nice graphics, a lot of depth and a real feeling that you're in control. This is easily one of my favourite games on Steam and a game which you should definitely pick up if you're a fan of tycoon/strategy games.